Establishment of immortal swine kidney epithelial cells

Animal Biotechnology
Sungwook KwakYun-Jaie Choi

Abstract

Using normal swine kidney epithelial (SKE) cells that were shown to be senescent at passages 12 to 14, we have established one lifespan-extended cell line and two lifespan-extended cell lines by exogenous introduction of the human catalytic subunit of telomerase (hTERT) and simian virus 40 large T-antigen (SV40LT), all of which maintain epithelial morphology and express cytokeratin, a marker of epithelial cells. SV40LT- and hTERT-transduced immortal cell lines appeared to be smaller and exhibited more uniform morphology relative to primary and spontaneously immortalized SKE cells. We determined the in vitro lifespan of primary SKE cells using a standard 3T6 protocol. There were two steps of the proliferation barrier at 12 and 20, in which a majority of primary SKE cells appeared enlarged, flattened, vacuolated, and ss-galactosidase-positive, all phenotypical characteristics of senescent cells. Lifespan-extended SKE cells were eventually established from most of the cellular foci, which is indicative of spontaneous cellular conversion at passage 23. Beyond passage 25, the rate of population doubling of the established cells gradually increased. At passage 30, immortal cell lines grew faster than primary counterpart cells in 10% ...Continue Reading

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